Yeah, I grew up in the 70s in England and this music changed my life. The blues brothers were on another level. long live the ten hole diatonic harmonics.
Aside from The Blues Brothers and being funny as hell, what really makes this movie an absolute classic is that it preserved incredible performances from legends like Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway, James Brown, and Chaka Kahn.
& they were going to cut this performance because they were afraid white people wouldn't watch the movie..this is MY personal fave in the movie though it's difficult for me to pick a favorite
Bulushi and Ackroyd were big blues fans and gave credit to the musicians who brought us much of what we know as American music, rock and roll being at the forefront.
That is John Lee Hooker in front of the greatest of Muddy Waters' bands. Shakey Horton, Willie Smith, Pinetop Perkins, Fuzz Jones and Luther Johnson. The very apex of an art form right there on celluloid. Beautifully directed and integrated into the movie too.
One thing I love about Blues Brothers, especially with the extended cut, is scenes like this - you’re forced to take in the atmosphere of Chicago and vibe with the music being played - it enhances the core themes and messages that the movie brings to the table. You’d never find movies nowadays where you’re allowed to stop for a moment and take in the setting and vibes, everything has to be so tightly-paced and action packed when stuff like this is just as effective. Love this movie.
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Not many people have any idea the power & strength of the performers who appeared in this movie. There wouldn't be genres of music if it wasn't for these legends. Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklyn, Jonnny Lee Hooker, Chaka Khan, James Brown & the like. There wouldn't be any rock-n-roll and their bands who perform them if it wasn't for the blues and soul and gospel. What you're watching here are the pioneers of music.
What a great presentation of the real Maxwell Street Market. The cuts between people, the knick-knack on display and the brothers Blues are perfectly executed. I feel like there's more culture in these 3 minutes than most full movies made today.
I've been rewatching this movie since I was 5 just for the love of the rusty 74 Monaco (Shit Box Dodge) I'm now a 24 year old auto body and mechanic nerd and I found one of those 74 Dodge Monaco's In a junkyard and I had to have it. I tore it down to the frame, dumped a 440 police pack in it, undercoated the frame, repainted it to a faded Mt Prospect reject, rewired everything (even shoved a 8-track in the dash) and I bought a ripped and beat up dash, steering wheel, front and rear bench seat and door panels to give it that Blues Brothers feel. When I take it for a drive, theirs only one of two things that go through my head... ♪Boom Boom Boom Boom♪ or " Pfff... Illinois Nazi's. I hate Illinois Nazi's " lol. Even after 30+ years This movie never gets old.
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Never forget that the blues gave birth to rock and roll. Without John Lee Hooker and others, we wouldn't have the great music that we know as rock and roll. God bless all those creative people.
I grew up in Chicago in the 70's and used to go to Maxwell street (where this scene is) it was the largest and oldest open air flea market in the country, it had been there for 120 years and you could literally buy anything you needed for cents on the dollar, and Blues was EVERYWHERE on every juke box in every tavern on every corner you could hear the best music, it was really as magical as it looks here, people were friendly, it was a great time to live there. I live in L.A. now and there's no comparison, Chicago is the greatest city in the world, Bangkok is pretty freakin incredible as well as Paris but Chicago is truly amazing. Well it was when I was growing up there. When the Blues Brothers movie came out we had to sneak in to see it because it was an R film, but we did it about 14 times. And bought the album and learned every song.
Some people watch 'It's a wonderful life' every year. or whatever other film gives them the warm and fuzzies. I watch this at least yearly. And I bought the album. And the VHS. and the DVD. And then torrented it. Never bought the shitbox Dodge though. Got the Chrysler Newport instead. Yeah, Chicago. The quintessential American city. The good (and great), the bad, and of course to complete the triptych, the ugly. The trichotomy of mankind.
I was blessed enough to meet Matt Guitar Murphy in Downtown Denver an underground blues club he was playing at. I was a light tech for Amarillo Productions and had connections. I shook his hand and told him that I was a big fan of his. He was so cool and laid back. Then I thought how many blues greats shook the same hand I did.. Including John Lee Hooker..
I had dinner with Hooker at his home - my band opened for him a couple of times. He was an absolute HOOT ! No talking to him while he had a baseball game on the tv though.
I am beyond jealous, I styled my playing by studying him for years! Saw him play but never got to meet him. Was he playing with Ry cooder, John Hammond or Bonnie Raitt? I think Hammond is a genius on guitar.
I’m a Sicilian guy, that watched the movie the first time as a little kid. This movie provided me with good taste in music and I feel a huge nostalgia for an era that I missed…
Could have been even better. Muddy Waters was too sick to perform, so one of the sidemen - Hooker - stepped in. Boosted his career just like it did all the other featured artists.
I met John Lee Hooker after a concert he walked up said hello and shook my hand swim to those things that you never ever forget It was very nice and approachable a wonderful person
i disagree just to lyk, the one half a step up is a better guitar sound imo but thats only cus i play guitar. also i say this not to argue or nothin, but just to comment on a great song
I saw this blues master back in 1973 at a small auditorium in Long Beach, Ca. John Lee came out, played for about an hour, then Canned Heat played for another hour. When they were done John Lee and Canned Heat played together for about another hour. What a show!! It still stands out in my memory!
ookiiani I was raised on this film too. My dad loved The Blues Brothers and would often dress up in his Blues Brothers costume when he worked (he was a DJ). He introduced me to this film when I was less than a month old and it became ‘our film’. Now we do our own double act dressing up as Jake and Elwood, heading out to the bar and singing songs from The Blues Brothers to a clapping crowd. They all love it when we do the act.
Mr. John Lee Hoover - 100% pure American icon! One of the greatest regrets in my life is that I had an opportunity to see the great JLH at the Golden Bear in Berkeley in 1971..... and passed it up. Much to my lifelong regret. RIP Mr. John Lee Hooker
Nothing portrays Maxwell Street better than this scene. When I was a kid my uncle use to take me to the flee markets there. This is exactly how it was before they were forced to move. As I got older I would hit Maxwell Street for the food after a long night of drinking. Best damn polish sausage in the world cooked exactly as they show it, next to a mountain of onions. Cars would pull up three deep in the street for a polish or a pork chop sandwich. I miss those days and that place.
The music in that movie is just bliss, and I love that they didn't waste time and money one glitzing & glamouring up every extra to look like a super model. Does anybody else feel that the characters look like everyday human beings is amazingly soothing?
Well Elwood trys to pick up Twiggy who was a model and Carrie Fischer was Jakes ex and she was pretty well known for her gold bikini costume in Star Wars people need to stop getting so star struck because actors are just people.
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I grew up in Illinoi. And my mother also grew up in illinoi. And she became good friends with John Lee in his early career. He would invite her over for dinner, and concerts, and parties. And when my mother meet my dad. My dad took a beautiful picture of my mother holding John Lee's hands with his altigraph on it. I never meet John. But from what my mother tells me. He was alot of fun to be around. She got to meet some other blues artist like Van Morrison, BB King, Earl Hooker, and a few others that I cant remember off the top if my head. Alot of you probably wont think this is true, but I can assure you this is 100% all true.
Backing the great John Lee Hooker is the Legendary Blues Band, featuring the no less great Calvin "Fuzz" Jones on the bass, "Guitar Junior" Luther Johnson on the guitar, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith on the drums, and Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins on the piano. And, lending his amazing skill on the mouth harp, "Big Walter" Horton.
I have not watched this film all the way. But, seeing Hooker brings me life! Nowadays, they would have cut this performance down to ten seconds with my generation’s stupid attention span. They played his performance all the way out. Respect for JLH!!! 🤍🤍🤍
A little bit "Boom Boom". a little bit "hmm hm", a quarter "how, how" and a short "heyyy hey". You never need more for a good blues, if hou have the blues like John Lee Hooker. UNFORGETABLE
I saw Lightnin' Hopkins open for J L Hooker here in Houston at Liberty Hall in 1980. Lightnin' was stoned drunk outta his mind, couldn't even get thru a 15 minute set...just trashed...stumbled and mumbled his way off the stage. John Lee Hooker comes on around 11PM, apologizes for LIghtnin's performance and proceeded to do about 2 hours of non-stop boogie, just him and a drummer...fantastic night.
A true classic! BACK in the day , movies were not overproduced in order to boost the egos of all the actors involved! THE formula for this scene was simple ; GOOD old down home blues, in the ghetto,paired with everyday shoppers and spectators ,= PURE CINEMA MAGIC! NOTHING else like it ever since! R.I.P, JOHN BELUSHI!
The 1st- and still my favorite- version of this INCREDIBLY powerful song. I personally owe John Belushi & Dan A. a massive debt of gratitude for their painstaking & smashingly successful effort to introduce the unstoppable force of the blues. As a grade school aged kid when the movie came out, this performance in particular made an indelible mark that has never wained. As a skinny white music nerd stuck In the in the middle-west, with no transpo besides a ten speed, no money, and less of a clue, finding & obtaining ANY blues records was a daunting task. Hard to fathom if you never struggled to survive in the (very) pre-internet days of the late 70s. I literally wore out the bootleg videotape of the movie provided by Vinny, or Pasquale, or any one of my dads "friends". I actually remember that I felt bad it was hot, yet somehow that seemed to make everything cement together more perfectly in my head & heart- watching and listening to a bunch of Catholic school whiteboys holding their own with some of the greatest blues artists of all time hit me like the low thud in he heart- like being electrocuted and "pleasured" at the same time: it thrilled, inspired and scared the shit out of me all at once. No single performance has- or likely will ever will have as significant an impact, or left such an indelible mark on my soul.
My sons started dancing in a way that they envisioned "old" people dancing, while listening to this song. I was laughing so hard that I forgot to record them doing their "jig" to this song!!!
The best thing about this movie and even Blues Brothers 2000 is that it got so many legends of Blues on video and shown to the masses. This stuff is pure greatness!
@@mvorselen real bluesbrothers fans love 2000 fuck these old dudes hating on 2000 as if the first one had that great of a story or was that funny wtf you wanted them to resurect belucci?
This scene was probably the most iconic musical moment I've ever seen in a movie growing up. Today I got to play a guitar that was owned by John Lee Hooker, and goddamn it if I was any good at the guitar I'd have tried playing this song.
If I had been walking down that street that day and came up on John Lee Hooker performing I would have thought I died and was experiencing my biggest wishes and fantasies! As a guitarist that loves the blues and tries to honor it, and honor the true bluesmen who lived it. I play blues guitar, but I will never be, and would never call myself a bluesman. I just try to copy what they did and hope it's just a little bit worthy of a listen. John Lee Hooker is like a blues god to me! ❤✌️🙏👍
He acts the way the best musicians do. He is confident, cocky, but not flashy. He knows who he is in music. He doesn't have anything to prove to the audience, he is there to do his thing & those who get it get it. There's lots of popular musicians who bask in the limelight. Hooker is the guy who doesn't care either way, like Miles Davis. What Davis is to jazz, Hooker is to blues.
@@vahjayjayaddictYou described him perfectly. I couldn't have said it any better. I love all of them. John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, T-bone Walker, and going back further to Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, and all the great bluesmen. They didn't set out to create a new genre of music and market it like most all other genres. They were simply translating their actual lives to guitar and lyrics. When they say "playing the blues" it meant living the blues too. In most situations all a black household had was music to get a little relief from the daily hardships and appalling racism they faced every single day. If there's one thing I can't stand today is some hot shot guitarist that can play every riff and lick in blues history, and play them very well, but have a cocky attitude and no idea whatsoever about the history of blues. I've met a lot of them. They strut around, as white as a white person can be, calling themself a blues musician. I'll tell them straight up to their face they are NOT a blues musician, and they don't amount to a pimple on Lightnin' Hopkins' ass! Blues cannot be taught. It has to be lived! Sorry about the long rant! I'm pretty zealous about blues. 🤣
Yeah the director's cut is superior in this case. nothing superfluous, just fills out the scenes/story. Watch it yearly since release. This movie hits all the marks for what a good movie is all about. SCMODS? State County Municipal Offender Data System.
Ive seen that version before I was like "what the fucking hell did they do?" Its the best song in the movie, and the shortest. Would it have killed them to just put it in? Also the best version of the song itself on youtube, better than the studio album.
Just got to see this movie in the theater this year for the first time ever and even though I'd seen it before on TV it was so much better on the big screen. Just made me smile.
